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Re: To bus or not to bus...
[quote:10329]Got it. Now I think my question has changed though this: what's the difference between a bus and an aux? I think that might clear me up...[/quote]
Buses "tend" to be used for effects, whereby you leave the full track itself playing, and then bus the sound to a reverb or delay or whatever. The idea here is you treat the bused sound as 100% wet, so no dry signal comes through ... the dry signal is supplied by the track itself, and the effect is supplied by the bus.
You could also set the output of the track to an aux and mix the dry/wet signal in the aux, however, aux channels are more meant to be "inputs" for external effects returns, for example, or for individual channels in software instruments (I think both Steve and David cover this in the Logic 204 and 102 respectively).
At the end of the day, it's whatever works for your situation, that is the correct thing to do ...